Dr Kara Tighe

Biography

Kara Tighe (B. Ag Econ., Ph.D.) is an Agricultural Economist teaching farm and resource management and consulting skills across Environmental and Rural Science courses an UNE. Kara previously worked at Meat and Livestock Australia and was awarded a Sheep CRC scholarship to complete her Ph.D., in which she researched Australian consumer demand and behaviour for meat products and the impacts of behaviour modifiers. She is interested in the economics and environmental sustainability of local scale production and consumption cycles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Agricultural Economics (Honours 1), University of New England
• Diploma of Modern Languages (Japanese), University of New England
• Ph.D., University of New England

Awards

• DH Drummond Thesis Prize in Economics, University of New England

Teaching Areas

Farm management and accounting, farm business consulting methods, microeconomics, gross margin analysis.

Units currently teaching:

• Decision making skills for agricultural consultants – CSLT303
• Sheep production – ANPR350

Publications

• Tighe, K., Piggott, N., Cacho, O., Mounter, S., & Villano, R. (2019). Does consumer interest in
  farm animal welfare impact Australian meat demand? Australasian Agribusiness Review,
  accepted 21 November 2018.
• Tighe, K., Piggott, N., Cacho, O., Mounter, S., & Villano, R. (2018). Measuring pre-committed
  quantities of Australian meat consumption. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource
  Economics, 63, 247-264.
• Tighe, K., Cacho, O., Mounter, S., Villano, R., Ball, A., Pethick, D., & Fleming, E. (2017).
  Determinants of consumer willingness to pay for quality-graded Australian sheep meat. Animal
  Production Science 58, 1692-1699.

Community and Advocacy Organisation Collaborations

• Armidale Farmers Market Committee Member (Secretary)